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Dragonflies & Damselflies Page 2
Image Taken on 13 Jul 2006
at 18:12 Image of day on 22 Jul 2006
The male Banded Agrion perched in the hedge.
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Image Taken on 29 Jun 2018
at 16:40 Image of day on 18 Aug 2018
A female banded Demoiselle Damselfly perched elegantly on a leaf tip. The female
has no 'bands' on the wings, and almost clear wings - here you are looking
through 4 wings and it is still only a light brown.
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Image Taken on 23 Jun 2020
at 12:52 Image of day on 30 Jul 2020
This female Banded Demoiselle Damselfly is the first female seen here this year.
Females don't have a colour band on the wing, and the wings have a rather
clear green tinge, both different to the darker brown of the Beautiful Demoiselle,
now apparently gone for the year.
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2014
at 10:09 Image of day on 18 Sep 2014
This female Banded Demoiselle damselfly is substantially smaller
than we are used to seeing. These
insects can only metamorphose to the same weight of insect they
reached as Nymphs - they don't grow as adults.
This montage at about 7 fps has been stretched horizontally to
remove overlaps.
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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2019
at 11:29 Image of day on 12 Jul 2019
An early arrival for this female Banded Demoiselle Damselfly.
The females don't have the characteristic dark band on the wing that you see on the males.
This insect is slightly smaller than the Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly and has lighter
and green tinted wings.
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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2019
at 11:38 Image of day on 12 Jul 2019
An early arrival for this female Banded Demoiselle Damselfly.
The females don't have the characteristic dark band on the wing that you see on the males.
This insect is slightly smaller than the Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly and has lighter
and green tinted wings.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2010
at 15:00 Image of day on 30 Aug 2010
This Female Banded Demoiselle (females do not have the wing
bands) was our guest for a few pics. The first is a 'head and
wing' view of the underneath of the insect flying nearly straight
upwards. The twist of their wings in flight is very evident as
are the green eyes.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2010
at 15:01 Image of day on 30 Aug 2010
And how she might appear in flight if your eyes could capture an
image at the approximately 0.03 mS flash duration.
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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2010
at 17:47 Image of day on 25 Aug 2010
A female Banded Demoiselle damselfly decorating the blackthorn
hedge at our North east boundary.
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Image Taken on 03 Jul 2010
at 11:52 Image of day on 05 Aug 2010
A few days later we got our first sight of the year of the
ladies, this one photographed at rest in the sunshine, catching
the light unusually well.
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Image Taken on 26 Jun 2020
at 12:38 Image of day on 03 Aug 2020
A female Banded Demoiselle Damselfly with her 4 wings almost perfectly
aligned to make the pseudo-pterostigma (white specks) particularly clear.
Only the female of this species (and of the 'Beautiful Demoiselle') have this
feature. The mark is called 'psuedo...' because almost all other species of Damselfly
and Dragonfly have these marks on both sexes and darker than the wing colour.
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Image Taken on 10 Jun 2025
at 09:15 Image of day on 27 Jul 2025
Another sighting of male Banded Demoiselle Damselfly.
These Damselflies are 'large' compared to most others at about 45mm long.
When in flight their broad wings makes the insect very distinctive.
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Image Taken on 23 Jun 2021
at 17:42 Image of day on 26 Jul 2021
One of very few male Banded Demoiselle Damselflies - a flickering delight to
see in flight.
The females are so similar to the female Beautiful Demoiselle Damselflies
that we find it hard to tell them apart.
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Image Taken on 29 Jul 2020
at 16:14 Image of day on 08 Sep 2020
We thought we had seen the last of the two "Demoiselle Damselfly" species for the
year, so are pleased to see this male Banded Demoiselle well away from
their normal haunts.
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Image Taken on 16 Jun 2020
at 17:30 Image of day on 22 Jul 2020
Only a handful of male Banded Demoiselle Damselflies seen so far this year,
and no females at all.
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Image Taken on 08 Jul 2019
at 15:27 Image of day on 25 Aug 2019
Occasional sightings of male Banded Demoiselle Damselflies continue mostly
on Yellow Flag Iris fronds. You are looking through 4 wings.
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Image Taken on 29 Jun 2018
at 10:16 Image of day on 18 Aug 2018
A male banded Demoiselle Damselfly perched elegantly on a leaf tip.
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Image Taken on 18 Jul 2016
at 16:18 Image of day on 02 Sep 2016
This male Banded Demoiselle Damselfly shows its body detail well, but the
dark background tends to hide the band on the wings that give it its name.
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Image Taken on 26 Jul 2008
at 17:02 Image of day on 09 Aug 2008
As promised in the image for 2 June 2008 we have tried to
photograph the Male Banded Damoiselle. Well some effort brought
the luck - here is the beauty.
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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2015
at 12:09 Image of day on 17 Aug 2015
The first Banded Demoiselle Damselfly this year, this one a male,
has appeared at the duck shaped pond on the Hop Sedge. You can
just see the complicated little clasper at the tail tip that must
match the females thorax for them to mate.
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Ref: 20150817_df3_20150617_1209_102 banded demoiselle damselfly male (1st of 2015)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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